Edittext android automatic focus

Question

I have an issue when the activity starts, android automatically places focus on the first edittext. How do I prevent android from doing that?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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Have a look here

Or you could just hide the keyboard, focus remains on the EditText upon starting the activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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answered Apr 05 '11 at 10:34

SteD

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '14 at 10:43

Three ways to solve this..

And now, when activity starts this layout getting default focus.

Also we can remove focus from children views in runtime (e.g. after finishing child editing):

findViewById(R.id.mainLayout).requestFocus(); or

Look in the AndroidManifest.xml element.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

It always hide key board when entering the activity.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 05 '11 at 10:33

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answered Apr 05 '11 at 10:33

Ajay Singh

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The question is how to prevent automatically focus, not how to set it to un-focused. – chengbo Dec 19 '12 at 02:30
@cheng "To change whether a view can take focus, call setFocusable(boolean)" - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setFocusable(boolean) – samus Feb 28 '13 at 21:30

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